Exams are over for me and it's the right time to make a summary of all 1st years examinations you will need to pass in Trinity College.

Foundation Skills for Midwifery Practice: divided into two exams; Communication skills -DVD 10 minutes assessment about a scenario similar to your first core placement + written assignment (1500 words) of self evaluation about the DVD and Written examination, 2 hours at the final term about any midwifery topic studied so far.

Sociology and Sharing the Woman's Experience: Written assignment (1500 words) to include a log of visits about a woman's experience of childbirth. Seriously choosing a woman and following her during antenatal, labour and postnatal period and Written sociology assignment (1000 words) about the midwife-mother relationship influenced by either medical model of care or social model of care.

Sources of Midwifery Knowledge: Computer Skills assessment (1 hour), following the steps and finding an article, formatting some information on word office, saving in pdf some articles and sending it back to an email. And Written Examination (1 hour), receiving previously an article to critical appraise using the CASP questions during the exam. Just answering the questions

Introduction to Psychology (shared with nursing) MCQ (2 hours) in the final term, about basic psychology applied to nursing and midwifery. Very important practicing the quizzes !

Midwifery Practice 1(core placement in either antenatal, intranatal, postnatal), 4 weeks completing a blue book of skills and a specific placement booklet of skills

Midwifery Practice 2(core placement in either antenatal, intranatal, postnatal), 4 weeks completing a blue book of skills and a specific placement booklet of skills

Midwifery Practice 3(core placement in either antenatal, intranatal, postnatal), 4 weeks completing a blue book of skills and a specific placement booklet of skills (finishing all 5 domains)

What I found the hardest was the final Sources of Midwifery Knowledge assessment, in which you had to remember the whole topics, plus references of the guidelines and the dates they have been published!The assignments as well have been very challenging for the referencing system and because of my difficulties with the Irish-Enlglish structure of the essays.